"verisimilar" meaning in English

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      "word": "verisimilarity"
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          "text": "Joyce's objection was founded in [...] a reaction to the doggedly linear, heavily patterned artifice of the nineteenth-century novel, the verisimilar credentials of which existed – so, at any rate, the argument runs – in inverse proportion to the conventionality of its narrative style.",
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        "Faithful to its own rules; internally consistent."
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        "(fiction) Faithful to its own rules; internally consistent."
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